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Snapshot of the day

November 7, 2023

Pratik Kanjilal

Mizoram votes today in a novel triangular contest. Since the founding of the state in 1983, the incumbent Mizo National Front and the Congress have gone head to head but this time, the Zoram People’s Movement is also in the ring. 

In Chhattisgarh, Bastar is also voting today. Of its 12 Assembly constituencies in what used to be Maoist territory, four each have been categorised as “highly sensitive”, “moderately sensitive”, and “less sensitive”. The Hindu travelled through the region where only dim echoes of the campaign trail are heard. 

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha, who is in detention under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), has told the Supreme Court that the investigating authorities have